Spoken Arts

Students in Spoken Arts explore their creative voice(s) through poetry, dramatic and comedic performance, improvisation, rap, and public speaking. The core of this four-year program is writing and performance, hand-in-hand. Spoken Artists have a passion for writing and an interest in honing their voice to perform their work. Over the course of the program, students meet a wide ranging group of artists in residence who support them in their journey to finding their authentic written and performance styles.

Spoken Artists

Tanea Lunsford, Director, lunsfordt1@sfusd.edu

Tanea Lunsford Lynx is a fourth-generation Black San Franciscan on both sides. Tanea is a writer, educator, and cultural worker. She's a graduate of Columbia University and the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Spoken Arts Collaborations

Spoken Arts annually collaborates with:

MoAD (Museum of the African Diaspora) as a partner of the poets in residence program, closing with an onsite reading and the publication of an anthology chapbook.
Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore for our Fall Open Mic
so many other Bay Area creative hubs!

Spoken Arts Show

A Crow Circles the Moon, 2/11/22